Financial Survey: MGP Ingredients (NASDAQ:MGPI) versus BrewBilt Brewing (OTCMKTS:BRBL)

MGP Ingredients (NASDAQ:MGPI) and BrewBilt Brewing (OTCMKTS:BRBL) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for MGP Ingredients and BrewBilt Brewing, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MGP Ingredients	1	1	4	0	2.50
BrewBilt Brewing	0	0	0	0	0.00

MGP Ingredients currently has a consensus target price of $49.67, indicating a potential upside of 107.55%. Given MGP Ingredients’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe MGP Ingredients is more favorable than BrewBilt Brewing.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares MGP Ingredients and BrewBilt Brewing”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
MGP Ingredients	$703.62 million	0.72	$34.66 million	($0.31)	-77.19
BrewBilt Brewing	$500,000.00	0.00	-$18.45 million	N/A	N/A

MGP Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than BrewBilt Brewing.

Volatility & Risk

MGP Ingredients has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrewBilt Brewing has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares MGP Ingredients and BrewBilt Brewing’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MGP Ingredients	-1.08%	10.66%	6.49%
BrewBilt Brewing	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

77.1% of MGP Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 34.4% of MGP Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of BrewBilt Brewing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

MGP Ingredients beats BrewBilt Brewing on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About MGP Ingredients

MGP Ingredients, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and supply of distilled spirits, branded spirits, and food ingredients in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Distillery Solutions; Branded Spirits; and Ingredient Solutions. The Distillery Solutions segment provides food grade alcohol for beverage applications that include bourbon, rye, whiskeys, as well as grain neutral spirits, include vodka and gin; and food-grade industrial alcohol, which is used as an ingredient in food products, personal care products, cleaning solutions, pharmaceuticals, and various other products. This segment also offers distillery co-products, such as dried distillers’ grain, fuel-grade alcohol for blending with gasoline, and corn oil; and provides warehouse services, including barrel put away, barrel storage, and barrel retrieval services, as well as blending services. The Branded Spirits segment provides premium plus, ultra-premium, super premium, premium, mid, and value branded distilled spirits, as well as private label products. The Ingredient Solutions segment provides specialty wheat starches for food applications under the Fibersym, Resistant Starch series, and FiberRite RW Resistant Starch names; specialty wheat proteins for food applications under the Arise and Proterra names; gluten-free textured pea proteins; commodity wheat starch for food and non-food applications; and commodity wheat proteins. It sells its products directly or through distributors to manufacturers and processors of finished packaged goods or to bakeries. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Atchison, Kansas.

About BrewBilt Brewing

BrewBilt Brewing Company engages in the fermentation, production, packaging, and sale of a portfolio of craft beers in North America and Europe. The company sells audio/visual components, as well as merchandise. It serves grocery chains, restaurants, and various hospitality chains. BrewBilt Brewing Company is based in Grass Valley, California.